| Name : nbd
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| Version : 2.9.20
| Vendor : openSUSE Evergreen
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| Release : 1.5.1
| Date : 2011-04-26 21:56:24
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| Group : Productivity/Networking/Other
| Source RPM : nbd-2.9.20-1.5.1.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.07 MB
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| Packager : (none)
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| Summary : Network Block Device Server and Client Utilities
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Description :
This package contains nbd-server. It is the server backend for the nbd
network block device driver that\'s in the Linux kernel.
nbd can be used to have a filesystem stored on another machine. It does
provide a block device, not a file system; so unless you put a
clustering filesystem on top of it, you can\'t access it simultaneously
from more than one client. Use NFS or a real cluster FS (such as
ocfs2) if you want to do this. nbd-server can export a file (which may
contain a filesystem image) or a partition. Swapping over nbd is
possible as well, though it\'s said not to be safe against OOM and
should not be used for that case. nbd-server also has a copy-on-write
mode where changes are saved to a separate file and thrown away when
the connection closes.
The package also contains the nbd-client tools, which you need to
configure the nbd devices on the client side.
Authors:
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Wouter Verhelst < wouterAATTdebian.org>
Anton Altaparmakov < aia21AATTcam.ac.uk>
Pavel Machek < pavelAATTucw.cz>
Paul Clements < Paul.ClementsAATTsteeleye.com>
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RPM found in directory: /packages/linux-pbone/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/openSUSE:/Evergreen:/11.1/standard/x86_64 |
